I've finally achieved consistency in my life. Any person of average or above intelligence can predict what I will say next with unerring accuracy. And what I say will always be wrong.

Friday, February 10, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] George Harrison fans definately not immune....

1/2 X 18 @ http://www.angelfire.com/musicals/harrison/english/page3.html

"George Harrison was the third man within the most important ever
existing group in the world : The Beatles. Always in the shadow of
Lennon and McCartney, George never had the least vital space for his
creativity to become something really transcendental.

Nevertheless his collaboration to the music of the last century as
well as to his instrument, the guitar, of course, are very
significant. George began playing the guitar when he began to imitate
American rock and country classics like Carl Perkins or Chet Atkins,
which is patent in the solos from eight to twelve beats characteristic
of the first Beatles´ Harrison. '

Afterwards there came the psychodelic years when together with other
two great guitarists, Lennon and McCartney ( if they were not so
technically speaking, their creative facet was great), they explored
the enormous sonancy possibilities of the guitar ( using for the first
time the feedback in one recording or experimenting with analogous
effects )"


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[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: Important Announcement

Dear Friends,

As of yesterday I have added one more to the major changes in my life
that have transpired in the last 40 days. Beyond the journey from
bachelorhood to marriage, from employment of sheer necessity to
embarking upon a career, from Washington to California, I am now a
minister ordained in three churches and a rabbi ordained in one temple.

For those who are curious, I am still an atheist.
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/010053.htm

Lest you think I am not serious about this, consider that I searched no
less than TWENTY pages of Google hits looking for free ordinations.

So don't even think about fucking with me.

Reverend Reverend Reverend Rabbi Joe Mac


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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Yet another reason to admire Hugo Chavez

http://www.theworld.org/latesteditions/02/20060208.shtml

Venezuela is the first Latin American country to tap into Open Source.
That's computer software that can be freely shared, modified, and
improved by users. President Hugo Chavez has mandated that all public
agencies begin using Open Source by next year. The World's Ruxandra
Guidi has details.


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[CanYoAssDigIt] The Bush Drools

Bush: "We reject violence as a way to express discontent with what
may be printed in a free press."

But his is how he really feels about expressing discontent with what
may be printed in a free press (from "Why did you want to bomb me, Mr
Bush and Mr Blair? Al-Jazeera's quest for answers has been met with
silence from both the White House and Downing Street"by Wadah Khanfar)

...the story in the Daily Mirror, which published a leaked document
it claimed was a transcript of a meeting in April 2004 between George
Bush and Tony Blair, points to a level of threat to our very existence
that had never occurred to us or to our viewers before. If it is true
that Bush had indeed thought of bombing the al-Jazeera headquarters in
Doha, this will undoubtedly constitute a watershed in the relationship
between government authorities and the free media."


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[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: You have been unsubscribed from SonOf3Cs

Sorry, had to quit that list. The sight of all those rednecks crawling
up each other's assholes was just too disgusting.

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Tuesday, February 07, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Wiretaps then and now

At Koretta Scott King's funeral... I heard Carter say this, it was
obvious it was pointed at Bush, but nobody had the guts to point it
out, and since people have stopped thinking for themselves, I wasn't
sure anybody noticed...

Former President Jimmy Carter later swung at Bush as well, not once
but twice. As he talked about the Kings, he said: "It was difficult
for them then personally with the civil liberties of both husband and
wife violated as they became the target of secret government
wiretaps." The crowd cheered as Bush, under fire for a secret
wiretapping program he ordered after the September 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks, again smiled weakly.

Later, Carter said Hurricane Katrina showed that all are not yet equal
in America. Some black leaders have blamed Bush for the poor federal
response, and rapper Kayne West said that Bush "hates" black people.
http://drudgereport.com/flash8.htm


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[CanYoAssDigIt] I don't believe it...

Can anybody confirm this:

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Monday: "President Washington,
President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all
authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale."

I would believe it if they said Dubya said it, but I can't believe
that the administration is filled with morons. some people have to
know what they are doing to keep the crimes coming


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Monday, February 06, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [progressive] Democracy & the Untouchables

This is bunk.  It's well-established that US administrations from George Washington on have great hostility to democracy, particularly in other places. They don't want democratic governments, they want subserviant governments. Elected governments are fine as long as they know their place, but dictators do a better job delivering the goods.

These new governments he mentions, generally speaking, have no hostility towards the American people, though some have expressed hostility towards the current administration - just as we do here on this list, using the same vocabulary.  Democratic standards have deteriorated badly in this country, our elections now somewhat worse than you'd find in Ureguay, for example but he still apparently thinks this is the leading democracy.

Chopra has been in this country too long, he's lost his bearings. He just just have a nice cup of urine and chill out.

On 2/6/06, Rita Pickering <ritapick@earthlink.net> wrote:

 
Published on Monday, February 6, 2006 by the Huffington Post
Democracy and the Untouchables
by Deepak Chopra
 

A coca farmer has been elected president in Bolivia and a socialist doctor in Chile. Hamas has won majority power in Palestine and a hard-line anti-Zionist leads Iran. These are all democratic outcomes, and in the foreseeable future we can expect more of the same.

From the American perspective, it looks like the worst example of getting what you wish for. We stand for democracy, and now we have to hold our ground when democracy doesn't turn out remotely as we would want it to. Observers point out that the last five elections in the Middle East have brought in Islamic fundamentalists or close to it, while almost every election in South America has brought in socialists with an animus against the U.S., or close to it.

As the world's leading democracy, it's ironic that we have been so afraid of it elsewhere, supporting reactionary royal families and dictatorships in country after country, although capriciously our support of a Noriega, Saddam Hussein, Duvalier, Aristide, Assad, Musharaf, etc. can suddenly sour. We should welcome democracy for the same reason that India learned to accept the rise of the untouchables to power.

Historically, it was unthinkable that the most despised and dispossessed people in the country should share in its rule. But no horrors have come to pass, and India's democracy has been strengthened. The factions rising to power in South America and the Middle East are similarly dispossessed and despised. Much as we dislike the religious Shiites who are about to rule Iraq, weren't they the same rebels who tried to rise against Saddam in 1991 and were massacred by the thousands when the U.S failed to help them?

Poor, oppressed, ignorant, and rejected people don't behave well; they are often angry and irrational. Whatever anyone may think of them, the dispossessed will only change if they are given a share of power. In Palestine the ruling Fatah party squandered and outright stole billions of dollars in foreign aid, and the leading politicians there have amassed fortunes in Swiss bank accounts while their people starve. The same is true of our favored pols in Iraq. They are prepared to steal billions more as the oil wealth of the country gets divided among the ultra-privileged. In South America a peon class, often made up of indigenous Indians, exists in hopeless degradation while the richest live like colonialists from two centuries ago.

These intolerable injustices aren't ours to fix. Each country deserves self-determination. Billions spent to prop up the Shah of Iran did nothing to prevent the rise of democracy there, and it won't anywhere else, not in the long run. America's choice is either to guide this great historical upheaval or be charged with trying to suppress the very people who might have sailed to the New World when we were struggling to be free.

Deepak Chopra came to the U.S. in 1970 from his native India to practice medicine, a career that evolved into the field of mind-body medicine. His breakthrough book, " Quantum Healing," brought him public recognition in 1989. Since then he has written more than 42 books and travels worldwide as a spiritual speaker who fuses Western science with Eastern wisdom. He lives in La Jolla with his wife, Rita, and has two grown children and two grandchildren. Dr. Chopra heads the Chopra Center in Carlsbad, California, which specializes in many alternative treatment modalities including Ayurveda.

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Pepsi Fan Attacked For Wearing Team Jersey

POSTED: 3:52 pm PST February 6, 2006
UPDATED: 5:12 pm PST February 6, 2006
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. -- Police are looking for a man who was wearing a
Coke shirt when he attacked a Pepsi fan outside a Port Orchard
supermarket on Sunday, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.
Police said J.J. Meland was punched because he was wearing a Seattle
Pepsi jersey.
"His team won, (so) he should be happy. Why should he be coming around
and beating people up that are going grocery shopping?" asked Beth
Randle, Meland's girlfiend.
Randle said the attacker first approached the couple as they walked
into the store and he followed Meland, shouting about Coke's win over
Pepsi.
When the couple walked outside, he was waiting for them and followed
them to their car.
"And that's when he just cheap-shotted him right in his face, and he
went down on his knee, and he hit him two more times," Randle said.
Meland suffered multiple fractures of his jaw, which will require surgery.
The attacker, who was seen wearing a Coke's fleece pull-over, ran away.


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Sunday, February 05, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] "Super" Bowl 40

I couldn't avoid the game entirely. A good outcome. Not the blowout I
was hoping for, but a wide enough spread that locals couldn't blame
blame bad calls.

It was priceless seeing the unhappy look on Paul Allen's face. Even
billionaires can't always buy everything they want.

Now Seattle can go back to what they do best - staring at their shoes,
and mumbling about mosquitoes and libidos, and mulattoes and albinos.


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[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: [canadianclassicrock] ...super bowl xl...

is that true? about the depends, I mean? that would have almost made
it worth watching.

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To: canadianclassicrock@yahoogroups.com

...personally thought the stones were great...lean, in tune, full of
swagger..." we coulda done this one at super bowl 1" before
'satisfaction 'from jagger was very tongue in cheek...but my fave
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: [progressive] Buy your gas at Citgo!

An opportunity to counter the lies of the Bush/Robertson crowd of filthy liars! I'm sure going to try to do it

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Date: Feb 5, 2006 3:21 PM
Subject: [progressive] Buy your gas at Citgo!
To: ImpeachBushNOW@yahoogroups.com

Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott! 

Of the top oil producing countries in the world, only one is a
democracy with a president who was elected on a platform of
using his nation's oil revenue to benefit the poor. The country is
Venezuela. The President is Hugo Chavez. Call him "the Anti-Bush."

Citgo is a U.S. refining and marketing firm that is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company. Money you pay
to Citgo goes primarily to Venezuela -- not Saudi Arabia or the
Middle East. There are 14,000 Citgo gas stations in the US.
(Click here http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp  to
find one near you.) By buying your gasoline at Citgo, you are
contributing to the billions of dollars that Venezuela's democratic
government is using to provide health care, literacy and education,
and subsidized food for the majority of Venezuelans.

Instead of using government to help the rich and the corporate, as
Bush does, Chavez is using the resources and oil revenue of his
government to help the poor in Venezuela. So this is the opposite
of a boycott. Call it a BUYcott. Spread the word.


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[CanYoAssDigIt] Does This Count?

The joys of instant messaging. I got this message when I logged on
this morning. I don't believe it for a moment, I'm just forwarding it
so you could laugh at it with me, heh heh

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signing in.

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HAVE NO NOSE OR EARS. I AM DEAD. IF U DO NOT SEND THIS TO 15PPL IN THE
NEXT 5 MIN., I WILL APPEAR TONIGHT BY YOUR BED WITH A KNIFE AND KILL
YOU. THIS IS NO JOKE SOMETHING GOOD WILL HAPPEN TO U TONIGHT AT 10:22.
SOMEONE WILL CALL U OR TALK TO U ONLINE AND SAY I LOVE U. DON'T BREAK
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Saturday, February 04, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Lance Armstrong

In some incredibly important news (that the Easter Bunny for Fox! who
needs to know that the criminal regime is unravelling before our eyes,
with only the fervent support of the Democrats allowing them to stay
out of jail) I learned that Lance Armstrong and Cheryl Crowe broke up!

I guess the talented peacenik with the incredibly bad taste in men got
tired of hanging with a narcissistic doping Bush-loving jerk. I read
the following on a sports rant website, and it tickled me quite a bit.
It made a lot of other people unhappy, but I get the sense nobody
really likes Armstrong, they just think he's the guy who's jamming a
thumb in the eye of the French people. Childish shits.

Lance Armstrong: The Revised Story - May 26th, 2004

I was going to let this go to the recycle bin, but I have been asked
to submit it again. The views expressed in this story have no
connection with the views of the Owner, Administrators, or Webmaster
of Sportsrant.com.

This is the classic case of a piece of shit riding the bicycle of
success too far. I grew up with Lance. He was born in a small southern
town, and his family was just like everyone else's. His parents were
divorced and his mother raised him. She should have chopped his balls
off when he was young, but no, she let him keep them.

Growing up, Lance was an absolute asshole to everyone. Girls swooned
over him, and he treated all of us like dirt. He would ask a girl out
and make her day, just to turn around and sleep with her friend or
sister. He was a man-whore. He could not keep that tiny little thing
is his pants if his life depended on it.

It wasn't just the girls he pissed on, it was the guys too. Lance
didn't have many friends. He spent all of his time riding his bike,
and looking at himself in a mirror. Between classes he would go to his
locker and do his hair in the mirror. This was his hourly routine. No
guys wanted to hang out with a narcissistic scumbag.

Lance shit on his mother too. She continually bought him bicycles to
ride, as that was all he was interested in. He began riding great
distances, and on more than one occasion, he rode all the way to
Oklahoma, and was too tired to ride home. Undoubtedly, his mother had
to drop what she was doing and drive across state lines to pick him
up. We all wished she would just leave him there, but she never did.

During our senior year, Lance moved away. We didn't know or care at
the time, but we later learned he moved to Colorado (good place for
him) to tryout for the Olympics. Lance made the Olympic team and
turned pro. He was not famous, since no one really cares about
bicycling, and he really wasn't very good. He continually finished
dead last, or close too it, and the world did not know or care who
Lance Armstrong was.

In 1996 after yet another miserable Olympic performance, Lance was
diagnosed with testicular cancer that had spread to his brain. It
could be argued that the cancer spread to his brain from the close
proximity of his balls to his head while it was up his ass, but no one
will ever really know. In the end, they removed his testicles and
treated him with chemotherapy, and Lance beat the cancer. At this
point in his life, it was the first time he was a winner.

Lance made a comeback in the bicycling circuit, and started winning
races. He has won several Tour de France's and many other races that I
do not know or care about. Suddenly, the world wanted to know whom
this "fighter" was. Lance was a celebrity, and I was stunned. If the
world knew what an asshole this guy really is, they would not be
kissing his ass repeatedly. Some things have not changed though.

The way Lance went through women in high school appears to be a trend
with him. He has left his wife and three children. Apparently, with
fame, you have to have a famous wife. He is reportedly dating Cheryl
Crowe. She can have him.


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[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: [ImpeachGeorgeWBush] History Lesson

I'd heard it all before except. "the kicker" at the end.  worth sticking it out for that

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Date: Feb 4, 2006 3:55 AM
Subject: [ImpeachGeorgeWBush] History Lesson
To: dewang@yahoogroups.com

History Lesson
 
 
 
 
 
Have a history teacher explain this----- if they can.

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Now it gets really weird.

Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln , was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.


John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.


Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Now hang on to your seat.

Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called ' Lincoln ' made by 'Ford.'

Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

And here's the kicker...

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was in Marilyn Monroe.


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Thursday, February 02, 2006

[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [Bizarro_UltraZine] Americans -- "they love us everywhere we go..."


On 2/2/06, kdhaisch@aol.com <kdhaisch@aol.com> wrote:
Matt writ...
 
> Calling Turks and American NATO allies is something like
> calling Poland and Germany Axis allies.  The government
> of this country is so arrogant and delusional, they think
> they can always impose their will by force. 
 
 
You mean, Bush is engaging in revisionist history
when he says Turks & U.S. are allies -- or, as the
National Enquirer would say: "thisclose."
 
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The Turkish government, unlike most of the NATO countries, complied with what 95% of their citizens wanted and did not join the coalition of the willing.  The withstood bullying and bribes, and were no doubt aware that the this has put them on the list for subversion and overthrow. Despots (Noriega, Saddam, Marcos spring to mind) are fine as long as they are responsive to the US.  To operate independently isn't tolerated. So there was a little bit of hyperbole - the US didn't march into Turkey and install the government.  but it's hardly a relationship between peers, and colleagues.  And surprise, surprise, the Turkish people are aware of that, even if we aren't here.
 

> 1. They didn't know the US overthrew Iranian democracy to
> put a despotic monarch back on the throne
> 2. The few that did just assumed it was the Iranian's job to
> forgive and forget
 

Are you talking about the Shah of Iran?  The shah who
stole $25-billion from the Iran treasury, then fled to
the U.S. -- and Iran retaliated by taking Americans
hostage for 444 days?
 
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That's the guy!  He was also a torturer and despot along the lines of Saddam, and again, that was just fine as long as he could deliver the goods.  My understanding is that initially the hostage takers demand was that Carter return the Shah.  He refused, on the grounds that he wouldn't get a fair trial (and they probably had something along the lines of the kangaroo court trying Saddam in mind). 

But the US demands that other countries not harbor terrorists, yet the US harbors them - The Shah, Pasada, I believe Rios Mott, who visited unspeakable horrors on Guatemala, resides in this country. 

 

> Torture and oppression just don't mean as much to the ones
> that are doing it as they do to the ones that are having it done
> to them.
 
 
Torturing people, like prisoners?  Are you referring to
Lynndie England?


No, not really. I'm talking about the widespread practice of torturing prisoners, under orders that come from the very top.  England was just trying to do her job, it isn't her fault that she's borderline retarded.  But it does make her a convenient scapegoat.  Did you notice how she messed up her own trial, because it was clear that she didn't even understand what she had agreed to plead to? 

That really was yet another low point in US "justice."   I want to see them put Gonzalez and Rumsfelt, and yes, even your own dear "Condi" Rice on trial, perhaps Cheney and Bush as well, though in a nice bit of symmetry, I think Bush is as dim as Lynndie England, and only has a very dim comprehension of what's going on, if that.

 
She called this: "Taking the dog out for a walk."
 
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> And I got a huge kick out of this one: "Turks traditionally idolize
> their soldiers; most enthusiastically  send their sons off for
> mandatory military service." Is that truly a national trait? How
> do you measure their enthusiasm?

> Could it be greater than here?  Every evening on the news they
> profile another "fallen warrior." they interview their parents who
> are always proud that they went off and died in the noble cause
> of making sure that Dick Cheney's stocks increase in value.

>But if you want demonization, take the case of Cindy Sheehan
 
 
> who objects to her son's pointless death.  They say that she's insane,
> that she's a megalomaniac who's glad that her son died because it
> gave her a platform, a liar, a bitch, they say that because she has
> a young sounding voice she was sexually molested as a child --
 
 
wouldn't that make her a victim?

Yes, I've been reading right wing blogs, and they are stupid as they are vicious. But the point is, I guess, if a woman was sexually molested, they are such weak vessels that they collapse, and they never again can say or do anything that is not crazy. I am sort of surprised that I haven't seen anybody advocating we stone her to death for her own good.

and oh, yea, they say she's ugly, because good people are beautiful (like Barbara Bush).

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> the most grotesque and sick insults imaginable directed at somebody
> exercising her free speech rights.

and they are posting jokes about her on the Internet...


Gee, it looks to me like that's a joke about Dubya.  But it does raise a serious issue. Bush's children are the right age for the service.  Why aren't they over their right now?  It's a noble cause, right?  So how about it?  He has 8 nieces and nephews that are the right age, yet none of them are fighting for the noble cause.  If you oppose the war, you are attacked as some kind of american hating cheese eater.  They don't oppose the war.  They just ignore it. because they can. because it isn't in their interest to call attention to it.  and how they aren't there.

 
 
> I suppose that next the right wing cooks will be calling for a
> blacklist for Busey and Zane.
 
 
Well, they can't act for shit anyway.

I really wouldn't know about that.  I'm given to understand that Bob Geldorf isn't much of a musician, that he wouldn't amount to much if he wasn't so good at organizing those huge concerts.

But John Wayne wasn't much of an actor, and he was a phony chickenhawk, and people revere him... so since when did an inability to act keep a person from practicing the craft (or at least the vocation) of acting in Hollywood?
 

Klaus
 
 
 
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [Leslie_Morris_Online] September 11th.

Lez doesn't. I do. Some others on this list are at least
entertaining the idea, but I would go so far as to put some money on
it right now. Any takers?

I remember when I was at community college, there was this woman there
involved in student government. I was working on the student newspaper
and interviewed her for a profile. Her story was astonishing. She had
modeled professionally, she had such an incredible history. I thought
she was lying too. I of course had some useful visual information in
that case - SHE WAS VERY PLAIN.

In that instance, everybody else who heard her story was skeptical
too, but we were polite and held our tongues. it was a small school,
and we had to get along for a year or two together.

In this case, I'm half a world away, so I can say whatever the hell I
want, and you can call me heartless, abusive, blaming the victim, or
whatever, and I can shrug it off, or if I'm feeling thin-skinned that
day, I can simply leave the list.

I've seen people make extraordinary claims of amazing achievements, or
incredible abuse. people made a name for themselves in my semi-famous
little town by saying that they'd been tortured by satanists - or
Satan himself. To question the stories no matter how implausible (or
even ludicrous) was despicable - heartless, abusive, blaming the
victim...

It's an interesting coincidence that this Ofelia has the same name as
one of the prime role models for the Fin de Siècle fashionable ladies
with the chic tubercular pallor.

In conclusion, why do I think she was lying? Because I've seen her
around. A lot.

Now, if anybody is interested, I can tell the absolutely true story of
how my band opened for Nirvana once. And you will believe it, because
it sounds like a true story. Because it is.

On 2/1/06, Simon Wilkinson <womby02@hotmail.com> wrote:
> why do you think she's a liar, Lez?
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> >From: Matt Love <matt.mattlove1@gmail.com>
> >Reply-To: Leslie_Morris_Online@yahoogroups.com
> >To: Leslie_Morris_Online@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: Re: [Leslie_Morris_Online] September 11th.
> >Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:02:25 -0800
> >
> >My wife once had a long train ride with a pathological liar. Seems
> >he'd been everywhere and done everything. He was only 26, yet he'd
> >been a motivational speaker for Mothers Against Drunk Drivers for over
> >a decade. Owned 10 coffee shops. Had condos in several cities. Just
> >left Seattle where he had bought another one. Why was he on the train
> >instead of a Mercedes? Maybe he was running away from something.
> >After one whopper too many, my wife asked him "has anybody ever
> >compared you to Forrest Gump?" to the total delight of another rider
> >who had been constantly one upped by the young and troubled genius.
> >
> >Next time you see her, ask Ofelia "Has anybody ever compared yo to
> >Forrest Gump?"
> >
> >Let us know what she said.
> >
> >On 1/28/06, Leslie Morris <dr_spider_man@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Yesterday I took Holly to get a beer. He's going to be separated
> > > for his girlfriend for a few months. So I've been trying to distract
> > > him. We ended up taking a new housemate. An Irish girl named Ofelia.
> > > We started to chat to her. She seemed interesting. She is a super
> > > genius. At the age of 3 she taught herself to read and write in two
> > > languages. She holds 10 degree. But she's a little unsure as she
> > > hasn't counted them in a while. She has lived all around the world.
> > > She has been a model, ballerina, been in some films, did a lot of
> > > theatre and is only 26. She came to Australia to start her new life.
> > > My first question is why the fuck are you living in a Petersham? She
> > > said she was running away from something. I suggested that Holly and
> > > I should guess. She said we would never be able to guess. But we
> > > tried anyway. Now at this point of the conversation the tone was
> > > very jovial and light hearted. She gave us some hints. It was about
> > > 4 years ago and she was living in New York at the time. I said `You
> > > running away from the Homosexual Broadway Mafia'. She laughed and
> > > replied `No'. Then I said it was some kind of Cabbage conspiracy and
> > > went to describe how she became the Cabbage Queen of Harlem. That
> > > was also incorrect. Then I said `Hmmm… did you cause September 11?'
> > > I saw a change in her eye. Holy Shit!!! (I constantly feel like a
> > > child in an adult costume.) She then went on to tell us she was she
> > > wanted to enroll in the Academy of Film in New York and her Father
> > > wanted her to be a banker. She was going over to the World Trade
> > > Center that morning to have breakfast and make up with him. She got
> > > a frantic phone call from him and then she was crushed by another
> > > building. Then was found 3 days later when everyone was thought
> > > dead. Then she threw though horrific list of things that have
> > > happened to her since. I felt like shit and apologized. The moral of
> > > this story? I don't know?
> > >
> > > For the rest of the time she tried to crack on to Con. Con wasn't
> > > interested. But that has nothing to do with Ofelia. We're pretty
> > > certain that Con he's gay.
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: [Newsletter] The Conversation Today - The Mohammed cartoon: cultural sensitivity versus free speech

Here's an example of free exercise of really dumb speech.  they wouldn't publish a cartoon of Jesus thumping blacks with a burning cross, but they think this is a big prinicipled stand.  They should print whatever they want.  and they should feel like the shitheals that they are.

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The Conversation
with Ross Reynolds

Weekdays 1-2 pm PST


Thursday, February 2, 2006

It began as a Danish newspaper cartoon of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. His turban was shaped like a bomb with a burning fuse. It's turned into an international incident on the fault line between cultural sensitivity and free speech. The cartoon outraged many Muslims. Pictures of Mohammed are considered idolatry. There have been demonstrations from Turkey to the Gaza Strip, a boycott of Danish products throughout the Middle East, and even calls in some quarters for a religious decree to attack Danish troops serving in Iraq. For their part, defiant newspapers in Europe reprinted the cartoons. They asserted a right to blasphemy. Now right wing talk shows are getting in the on act, stirring up a 'Buy Danish' campaign. When does cultural sensitivity trump free speech, and when doesn't it?

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Correction on your Band Name Origins page...

It just now struck me... man, I am so slow - I loved The Thompson
Twins "hold me now" back then - even learned it and played a cover
version at open mics.

My wife, who grew up in South Africa and had a different cultural
background than me (USA), loves Tintin, and first the books, then a
Canadian animation on DVD became part of my life...

Yet it took me until today to think "hey, d'ya suppose"... your page
(http://www.geocities.com/temptations_page/origins.html#tt) confirmed
it:

"The Thompson Twins -Despite the band being a trio, they took their
name from a pair of characters, identical twins featured in Tintin, a
French comic series. The bumbling, mustachioed detectives are known
from their odd speech patters and the even odder fact that their only
dissimilarity is their different last names --- one is Thomson, the
other is Thompson, "with a P, as in psychoanalysis."

***
But it's a hell of a world, isn't it? You provide this generous
service, and all you ask in return is that I Tell you my thoughts and
dreams. Instead I offer petty criticism. Tintin is a Belgian
character, created by a Belgian cartoonist, Hergé (Georges Rémi), who
first appeared in 1929 in a children's supplement to a Belgian daily
newspaper, Le Vingtième Siècle.

Our scrappy Tintin is no surrender monkey, though I'm sure that now
and again Tintin negotiated the vending of some cheesy comestibles.

I don't want to be too pushy about this, but I would just hate to see
how my wife's tears would well up if she saw your page before you
correct it.

And to be extremely pedantic - Thomson and Thompson have one
additional dissimilarity. The moustache of one of the detectives (I
don't know which one, perhaps my wife, while dabbing away her tears,
could tell you) curls up slightly at the tips. The other doesn't. I
now that extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof, therefore, I
attach a picture that provides that proof.

You have my personal assurances that (unlike the Magruder film) this
picture has not been tampered with.


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